CONCEPTIONS OF ISLAM - A PH.D COURSE

August 27th - 30th 2007:

CURRICULUM:

The curriculum is divided into two parts: Feminism and Islam. Please note that this curriculum is compulsory in order to achieve full credit for the course. Also, there are some articles listed as recommended literature. The literature is available as pdf files below. If you should experience any problems downloading the literature, please do not hesitate to contact the organisers (email).

PART ONE - FEMINISM

Amir-Moazami, Schirin and Armando Salvatore. 2003. "Gender, Generation and the Reform of Tradition: From Muslim Majority Societies to Western Europe". In Muslim Networks and Transnational Communities in and across Europe (eds) S. Allievi and J.S. Nielsen. Muslim Minorities. Leiden, Boston: Brill. pp 52 - 76
25 pages
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Amir-Moazami, Schirin and Jeanette S. Jouili. 2006. "Knowledge, Empowerment and Religious Authority Among Pious Muslim Women in France and Germany". In The Muslim World. Volume 96, October. pp 617 – 642
26 pages
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Bracke, Sarah. 2003. "Author(iz)ing Agency: Feminist Scholars Making Sense of Women's Involvement in Religious 'Fundamentalist' Movements". In European Journal of Women's Studies, 10; pp. 335 – 347
13 pages
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Hamid, Shadi. 2006. "Between Orientalism and Postmodernism: The Changing Nature of Western Feminist Thought Towards the Middle East". In Hawwa, Volume 4, Number 1. pp. 76-92
17 pages
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Jacobsen, Christine M. 2004. 'Negotiating Gender: Discourse and Practice among Young Muslims in Norway’. In Nordic Journal of Religion and Society 17 (1). pp. 5-28.
24 pages
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Deniz Kandiyoti. 1998. "Bargaining with Patriarchy". In Gender and Society, Vol. 2, No. 3, Special Issue to Honor Jessie Bernard. September, pp. 274-290.
17 pages
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Mahmood, Saba. 2001. "Feminist Theory, Embodiment, and the Docile Agent: Some Reflections on the Egyptian Islamic Revival". Cultural Anthropology 16(2):202–236.
35 pages
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Malik, Maleiha. 2007. "The Branch on which we sit'': Multiculturalism, Minority Women and Family Law' . In Feminist Perspectives on Family Law, eds. A. Diduck and K. O'Donovan. Pp. 211-235
26 pages
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Moghadam, Valentine M. 2002. "Islamic Feminism and Its Discontents: Toward a Resolution of the Debate". Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, volume 27, pages 1135–1171
37 pages
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Mookherjee, Monica. 2005. "Affective Citizenship: Feminism, Postcolonialism and the Politics of Recognition". in Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy Vol. 8, No. 1, March. pp. 31-50
20 pages
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Waggoner, Matt. 2005. "Irony, Embodiment, and the 'critical Attitude': Engaging Saba Mahmood's Critique of Secular Morality'", Culture and Religion, 6:2, 237 - 261
25 pages
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Recommended literature

Abu-Lughod, Lila. 2002. "Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving? Anthropological Reflections on Cultural Relativism and its Others". American Anthropologist 104, 783-790.
7 pages
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Guenif-Souilamas, Nacira. 2003, “ Ni putes, ni soumises ou très pute, très voilée, les inévitables contradictions d’un féminisme sous influence ”, Cosmopolitiques, Ce sexe qui nous dépasse, n° 4, pp. 53-65
13 pages
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Guenif-Souilamas, Nacira. 2002. "L’enfermement viriliste: des garçons arabes plus vrais que nature", Cosmopolitiques, cette violence qui nous tient, n°2., pp. 47-59
13 pages
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Miriam Cooke. 2000. "Multiple Critique: Islamic Feminist Rhetorical Strategies". In Nepantla: Views from South 1.1. pp. 91-110
20 pages
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PART TWO – ISLAM:

Ismail, Salwa. 2006. Rethinking Islamist Politics: Culture, the State and Islamism. I. B. Tauris. London. New York. pp. 1-113
114 pages
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Abou El Fadl, Khaled. 2001. Speaking in God’s Name: Islamic Law, Authority and Women. One World. Oxford. pp. 9-140
131 pages
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Abu-Rabi’, Ibrahim M. 2004. Contemporary Arab Thought: Studies in Post-1967 Arab Intellectual History. Pluto Press. London. pp. 203-278.
75 pages.
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Mir-Hosseini, Ziba. 2007. ”Islam and Gender Justice” in Voices of Islam, Volume 5, Voices of Change, edited by Vincent Cornell, Omid Safi and Virgina Gray Henry . Westport, Connecticut and London. pp. 85-113.
28 pages
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Mir-Hosseini, Ziba. 2006. ”Muslim Women’s Quest for Equality: Between Islamic Law and Feminism”. Critical Inquiry, 32 (Summer). Pp. 629-646
17 pages.
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Recommended literature:

Ramadan, Tariq. 2004. Western Muslims and the Future of Islam. Oxford University Press. Oxford. pp. 126-199.
73 pages
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